Quotes about Surrender

We can receive the things we do not want—or give up the things we do want—if we have decided, by the grace of God, that we can trust God to take care of us.

Death to self is submitting all your desires to God. This abandonment of the self to God is the way to experience abundance in God. It means that, in God's hands, we are content for him to take charge of outcomes

Humility is the beautiful condition of people who have learned to surrender their desires, their glory, and their power.

iI we view difficult emotions as problems to be solved, we will end up looking for answers that will work rather than pursuing relationship with God, regardless of immediate outcome. A determination to resolve our emotional struggles inevitably subordinates God as a servant of our healing rather than a Person to be praised.

Please God … lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.

Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

Let tomorrow come tomorrow. Not by your will is the house carried through the night. Order is only the possibility of rest.

Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of the nursing home, of lingering death. I gnaw again the old bones of the fear of what is to come, and grieve with a sisterly grief over Grandmam and Mrs. Feltner and the other old women who have gone before. Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, 'Thy will be done,' and then again I am free and can go to sleep.